Weavers, Scribes, and Kings Quotes

“women had more prominence and power in society in the third millennium bce than they did 2,000 years later.”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“It was not some sort of laughable superstition or magic.”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“More than two dozen modern countries lie at least partly within its ancient boundaries at their greatest extent.”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“The ancient recipe reads as follows: “Leg meat (probably lamb or goat) is used. You prepare water. You add fat. You sear. You fold in salt, beer, onion, arugula, cilantro, Persian shallot, cumin, and red beet, and [you crush] leek and garlic. You sprinkle coriander on top. [You add] kurrat (a type of leek) and fresh cilantro.”24”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“The same basic chariot design even made it all the way to China, which was ruled at the time by the Shang dynasty;”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“a kind of scientific thinking, in that the diviners believed in making observations, writing reports, and consulting those reports later in the hope of anticipating future events.”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“Robson, Eleanor. 2008. Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. Robson, Eleanor. 2009. “Mathematics Education in an Old Babylonian Scribal School.” In The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics, edited by Eleanor Robson and Jacqueline Stedall, 199–227. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Robson, Eleanor. 2011. “The Production and Dissemination of Scholarly Knowledge.” In The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture, edited by Karen Radner and Eleanor Robson, 557–576. Oxford,”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“mathematics probably didn’t have a discernable influence on Greek thinkers.93 The Greeks seem to have rediscovered and”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“The door monitor (said), “Why did you go out without my say-so?” He beat me. The jug monitor, “Why did you take [water or beer] without my say-so?” He beat me. The Sumerian monitor, “You spoke in Akkadian!” He beat me. My teacher, “Your handwriting is not at all good!” He beat me.83”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“(the gods) Shamash and Sherida.”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“kings of the Elamite dynasty were referred to as “great king” and “father” by kings in Syria and Mesopotamia and were the only kings that the Mesopotamian kings considered to be higher in status than themselves.”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“Part V The Old Babylonian Period,
1792–1550 bce”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“The Dingirgubbu gods seem only known from this ritual; their name means “deities of the left”:”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“Shehata, Dahlia. 2014. “Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East.” In Music in Antiquity: The Near East and the Mediterranean”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“Old Babylonian kings of Isin, Kish, Kisurra, and Sippar all named years after the dedication of kettledrums, called lilissum drums: Shehata 2014, 115–116.”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“A bronze kettledrum could also be dedicated to a god, and these too were mentioned in year-names.71”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“indoor toilet flushed by a drainage channel.”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“the end, Cyrus was able to take over Babylonia with very little destruction or disturbance”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“Nabonidus was arrested and exiled far from the city about which he seems to have been so ambivalent.”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“which was the Akkadian spelling of “Judean.”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“Several people on the oil ration list were described as “Ya’uda,”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“who were captured and marched off to live somewhere in the Assyrian Empire”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“the destruction must have represented an inexpressible tragedy for the Egyptians”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“Although Esarhaddon crowed about his victory,”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“It would be hard to imagine a worse way to come to the throne than the one endured by Esarhaddon (681–669 bce).”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“who had been much more completely conquered and displaced by the Assyrians than was true of Judah,”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“simply disappeared from the records, becoming the “ten lost tribes of Israel.”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“The attacks on Samaria and Israel and the displacement of Israelites across the empire were bemoaned by biblical authors.”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“Near Eastern galleries of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris,”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

“You could sit and look at just one relief panel for hours and fail to take in all its detail,”
― Amanda H. Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East